Resilient tire for wheels of road-vehicles.



, No. 633,429. Patented Sept; l9,,l899.

H. U. CRANE. RESIUENT TIRE FOR WHEELS 0F ROAD VEHICLES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IIENRY CHARLES CRANE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO RICHARD JOHN SANKEY, OF SAME PLACE, AND SAMUEL NORRIS, OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

RESILIENT TIRE FOR WHEELS OF ROAD- VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,429, dated September 19, 1899.

Application filed July 31, 1899. Serial No. 725,671. (No model.)

tires for road-vehicles, motor-cars, and the like to prevent the rubber pad or cushion becoming injured or unduly crushed.

This invention consists of channelingthe inner sides of a wheels rim-walls or side cheeks either by bulging the outside to form also a curb-resisting rib or to channeling the inner faces of inwardly-projecting rimribs for the reception of keys, one face of each of which is flat to be in contact with the plain side checks of a shielded sectional tire, the walls or checks of which are also ribbed for the keys to act against and so prevent the sectional pieces leaving the wheel while in use, the resiliency of the tire-sections being dependent upon a rubber lineror pad which is inclosed between said rim and sections of tire.

Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a crosssection and part perspective elevation of a wheel-tire for ordinary cabs and light vehicles; Fig. 2, a similar view of a wheel for heavy vehicles, such as motor-cars and goods-delivery vans; Fig. 3, an elevation of wheel with part of rim-wall removed.

I form the cheeks A of the rim B with rounded or equivalent shaped projecting portions C, in the inner faces of which hollow channels exist for the reception of key-pins D for locking the shield-sections E in place, these at the cheeks F F being provided with outwardly-projecting lips G G to bear against the key-pins D D to prevent the shields E E falling out. The lips G G are thus kept within the rim-cheeks A A. The key-pins of,

say, steel wire have one flat surface in contact with the cheeks F F of the shield E E for the free in-and-ont motion of the shields E E, due to the resiliency of the rubber liner or pad II, which is between and inclosed within the rim B and the shields E and the cheeks A F.

The rim-cheeks A may, if desired, be flat, as at Fig. 2, on the outside, in which case the hollows or channels for the key-pins D are between the top inner overlap or inwardlyformed ribs I I and of lips produced in the rolling operation. The shieldsE E may also have inwardlyprojecting lips J J, Fig. 2, at

their lower ends for the retention of the rubber liner II when crowded therein.

It will be understood that by my invention the key-pins D D are in contact with metal surfaces and are driven into channels of the rim-cheeks A A and bear against the cheeks F F of the shields E E for the shields free play to rise and fall, and these are held to the rim by the outwardly-formed shield-lips G G.

The rubber liner or resilient pad H may be of the usual construction or be molded with holes for wire or other binding.

K is the telly of a wheel, to which the rim B is aflixed in any desired manner. L is one of the spokes of a wheel.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A resilient wheel-tire consisting of out- HENRY CHARLES CRANE.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM JAMEs SALISBURY, WILLIAM JEREMIAH CARROLL. 

